Safety of hospital stays greatly affected by staff and culture
Less than 48 hours after returning home from a 12-day hospital stay, John McCleary woke up with a 103-degree fever, too weak to sit up in bed. An ambulance rushed...
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Safety of hospital stays greatly affected by staff and culture
Less than 48 hours after returning home from a 12-day hospital stay, John McCleary woke up with a 103-degree fever, too weak to sit up in bed. An ambulance rushed...
A public health merger in Chicago?
Health care experts and some public officials are floating a radical idea as Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel prepares to take office: a full or partial merger of Chicago and Cook County's...
Staying safe during a hospital stay
Hospitals may be even more dangerous than previously suspected. One out of every three people admitted suffers a medication mix-up, a fall, a bed sore, or another problem related to...
Staying safe during a hospital stay
Hospitals may be even more dangerous than previously suspected. One out of every three people admitted suffers a medication mix-up, a fall, a bed sore, or another problem related to...
Getting older, getting asthma
Asthma is often overlooked in older patients, but why? We asked two leading experts to weigh in. Dr. Charles E. Reed is a former head of the division of allergic...
New list offers hospital-specific data on patient safety
Over strong objections from the hospital industry, the government has published data about things that can go wrong in hospitals — falls, objects left behind during surgeries, bloodstream or urinary...
Getting older, getting asthma
Asthma is often overlooked in older patients, but why? We asked two leading experts to weigh in. Dr. Charles E. Reed is a former head of the division of allergic...
New list offers hospital-specific data on patient safety
Over strong objections from the hospital industry, the government has published data about things that can go wrong in hospitals — falls, objects left behind during surgeries, bloodstream or urinary...
Medicare fraud-busters target Chicago
Day after day, the delivery trucks arrived at the building on Chicago's North Side, bringing walkers, hospital beds and wheelchairs to residents. But there was a problem: Most of the...